Dang...

I think I fubared my game of Fallout 2. I have a previous save game that I can go back to at least, but I'm hoping some of the Game Banshee forum geniuses can help me out. Apparently joining the Hubologists damns you to not being able to complete a quest, as far as I can tell anyway.

Budgie circus

Saw this on budgerigars. I once read that the trick to training animals is to exploit a natural talent they possess...there's a part near the end where one of the birds keeps pushing a toy car off the stand. I don't know how many times Buddy used to do that...and of course he'd always drop a toy on the other side of the cabinet the cages sat on.

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This is not why I have high cholesterol

...but it certainly can't help it ;-) The secret ingredient for tonight's dinner was...are you sitting down for it? A whole block of cream cheese.

I'll back up a bit and say that for years we've been taking the beautiful one hour drive out to the small town of Linden just for a restaurant called Country Cousins. It's real good, down home Mennonite cuisine. The dishes are delicious and the prevailing theory seems to be "more cream makes everything better". The first time I ate there I was extremely sleepy afterward and couldn't stay awake on the ride home. The last time I was there I bought The Christian Home Cook Book, an impressive yet simple tome that held all their culinary secrets!

Although I wanted to try a lot of the recipes, they also terrified me. Would mushroom and tomato soup really be a good combination? What about the Cherry Coke Jello? Hmm! About two-thirds of the book is made up of breads, cakes, cookies and other sweets by the way. I noticed that most of the casseroles relied on pasta and hamburger, so to get my Mission 101 goal to make five recipes from it, I finally just picked one called ( Company Casserole )